While I love Thanksgiving (eating, football, family time), if it weren’t for my daughter, I would loathe the Christmas season. Shopping, pressure, tinsel, pressure, and freezing temperatures? And pressure? Sorry, that just doesn’t sound jolly to me. All the more reason to drown out the din of the real world with the alcohol content of…
Category: wine books
Blurbs South Of The Border (On Evan Goldstein’s “Wines Of South America”)
There are moments that mark a sort of rite of passage for personalities in any field. With respect to writing on the topic of wine, there’s the first time you’re given a wine sample, the first time you’re invited to a tasting event or a tour of a wine region, the first time someone quotes…
100 Articles Later (December 2013 Wine.Answers.com Roundup)
It’s hard for me to believe, but since I started my gig as the Answers.com wine dude in the Spring I’ve penned 100 articles for the category (yes, it’s a paying gig; no, I’m not part of their recently announced guest blogger program). So far, it’s been… well, great, actually. I’ve been able to find…
A Wine And Comics Still Life: The Initiates
This week, instead of reviewing a wine, I’m going to give you a review of wine’s role in our lives, as drinkers, and in the lives of those who toil their own land to produce it. Sort of. I recently worked my way through a review copy of a comic (sorry, sorry, graphic novel!) about…